Homalia.] BRYACE^. 285 



the apex ; cells of the upper areolation minute, linear-oblong 

 or vermicular, those of the basal angles quadrate, opaque ; costa 

 vanishing below the apex ; pei'ichtetial leaves much smaller, 

 lanceolate, narrowly long-acuminate, not costate : flowers dioe- 

 cious ; the female only are known. — Pilotrichuin cymhifolium^ 

 Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 81, and Icon. Muse. 122, t. 76, B. 



Hab. On trees, in a hummock, E. Florida (Binney, 1846) ; Enterprise, 

 Florida {J. Donnell Smith, Austin). 



106. HOMALIA, Brid. (PI. 5.) 

 Plants repeatedly distichous, stoloniferous. Leaves imbri- 

 cate, diverging laterally, flattened, cultriform, smooth, glossy, 

 minutely areolate ; the upper rhomboidal, the lower oblong- 

 hexagonal. Flowers monoecious. Calyptra cucullate, naked. 

 Capsule long-pedicellate, erect or cernuous. Operculum ob- 

 liquely rostrate from a highly convex base. Peristome double ; 

 teeth long, densely articulate, confluent at base, yellowish; 

 basilar membrane broad ; segments narrow, sublinear, as long 

 as the teeth, carinate and perforated along the keel; cilia none 

 or solitary and very short. Annulus distinct. — Omalia, Bruch 

 & Schimp. 



1. H. trichomanoides, Bruch & Schimp. Loosely tufted, 

 pale green ; stems slender, interruptedly foliate by the numer- 

 ous innovations : leaves vertically flattened or curved down- 

 ward, oblong, cultriform, subfalcate, obtusely ai)iculate, minutely 

 serrulate on the borders ; costa slender, vanishing above the 

 middle: capsule erect or slightly curved, pale brown. — Bryol. 

 Eur. t. 446. ILjpnwn tricJco'm.anoides., Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. 

 88. Leshca trichomanoides, Hedw.- Spec. Muse. 231. 



Hab. On rocks near Lake Superior {Dnunmond). 



2. H. obtusata, Mitt. Differing from the last in the leaves 

 more obovate and more rounded at the apex, the costa some- 

 times imperceptible, and the cells in the apex shorter. — Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. viii. 38. JVec/cera obtusata, Mitten, 1. c. iii., Suppl. 

 118. 



Hab. Mitten refers to this Thibetian species a few imperfect speci- 

 mens found in British Columbia by Lyall, 



3. H. Jamesii, Schimp. Much like II. trichomanoides., 

 differing in its smaller size, the leaves longer, more solid, sub- 



